Tony,
> Diane,
>
> Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > I've just had an important email bounce because when I typed in the
> > email address (which isn't in my contacts list), Evo capitalised the
> > first letter.
>
> I always thought that e-mail addresses were case insensitive, so I would
> be tempted to blame the organisation that bounced the message, not EVO.
Me too until I had a similar problem. The domain part is case insensitive
because it follows the rules for DNS. The local part is case sensitive -
it follows the rules for local users and on (for example) UNIX dave is
not the same as daVe (I won't mention the historical reason why DAVE is
not a good UNIX logon :-)). It works because most sensible sysadmins
fold everything to one case or the other. It's in the RFC's somewhere,
I just can't remember where.
Diane, it's a pain and I hate it when I use any word processor that
capitalises words for me - or indeed does anything automatically.
Too often these systems think they are being clever and overriding them
becomes a big irritant. Having fewer clever features forces you to
improve your proof reading and typing skills.
My other pet irritant is sysadmins who insist on aliasing rm to rm -i.
Now I'm worried that I've done something wrong and some wit on the list
will come back and say "if you had feature XYZ enabled, it would have
corrected that" :-) (I'll reply and say "What in vi ?" :-)
TTFN
D
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